London: Henry Bohn, 1832. First edition, ordinary paper copy. Read More about Bibliophobia. Remarks on the Present Languid and Depressed State of Literature and the Book...
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London: Henry Bohn, 1832. One of 100 Large Paper Copies. Large paper copy in original boards. Read More about Bibliophobia. Remarks on the Present Languid and Depressed State of Literature and the Book...
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London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press, 1817. First edition, with half-titles and errata. Bound by Charles Smith. Dibdin's lavish work in an ornate binding by Charles Smith, one of the more active and competent binders in London of the 1810s-'30s, with his "13 Church..... Read More about The Bibliographical Decameron; Or Ten Days' Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts and...
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London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press, 1817. First edition. IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. Read More about The Bibliographical Decameron; Or Ten Days' Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts and...
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London: The Imprint, [1913]. First edition. This reprint of an extract from the Bibliographical Decameron appeard a few pages at a time as a separately paginated supplement to the typographical periodical "The Imprint," a title page being include in the first number. The work was left unfinished when The Imprint..... Read More about Printers Devices. Being a Partial reprint of the Fifth and Sixth Days Delectable Discourses...
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London: Printed for the Author by C. Richards and sold by James Bohn, Laing and Forbes, John Smith and Son and E. Charnley, 1838. First edition. In Boards. Read More about A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in...
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London: 1821. First edition, one of only 36 copies. One of only 36 copies printed of this reply to the French printer Crapelet's harsh criticisms of Dibdin's chapter on Paris in his Bibliographical Tour (1821). This copy in a fine contemporary binding by Charles Lewis, and with distinguished collector's provenance..... Read More about A Roland for an Oliver; Or, Brief Remarks upon the Preface and Notes of G.A. Crapelet, attached...
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London: Henry Bohn, 1832. One of 100 Large Paper Copies. Large paper presentation copy with ALS. A large paper presentation copy, inscribed: "John Rawlinson Esq. / From Mercurius Rusticus." With an amusing ALS of Dibdin presenting the book to Rawlinson laid in: "May 22/32. My Dear Sir Finding that I...... Read More about Bibliophobia. Remarks on the Present Languid and Depressed State of Literature and the Book...
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London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme by W. Savage, 1809. First edition. Fine Copy in Booklover's Shop Binding. An amusing work; Dibdin's best known. The real action takes place in the footnotes, so copious and detailed that they overwhelm the main text. This copy finely bound by Henry..... Read More about The Bibliomania; or, Book-Madness; containing some account of the History, Symptoms, and Cure of...
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London: Printed by William Savage … for William Miller …; John Murray; Longman, et al, 1810-1819. First Dibdin edition, regular issue. In Original Boards. An attractive copy in original boards of this finely printed and richly illustrated survey of printing in the British Isles, including chapters on Caxton, Wynkyn de..... Read More about Typographical Antiquities: Or the History of Printing in England, Scotland, and Ireland:...
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Glocester: Printed by H. Ruff, for Payne, Faulder, Egerton, Evans, Robinsons, Mawman, et al, 1802. First edition. Abbey Copy, Uncut in Boards. The first edition was sold out within 6 weeks according to Lowndes. This work was one of his more financially successful publications and helped establish his bibliographic reputation..... Read More about An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Roman Classics:...
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Paris: Crapelet, 1821. First edition, one of 100 copies printed. Dibdin's treatment of the Paris printing and bookselling scene in his Bibliographical Tour provoked this translation and annoyed response (in the preface and footnotes) from the great printer Crapelet, who took exception to numerous aspects of Didbin's account, including the..... Read More about Lettre trentième concernant l'imprimerie et la librairie de Paris, traduite de l'Anglais, avec...
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Kensington: Feb 14, 1820. Reading in part: "You will be pleased to make the subject itself only 3 inches in height; or 3 inches 1/4 at most. The breadth with the necessarily proportionate. For the sum of £10.10, I trust you will execute it in a brilliant and spirited manner..." Read More about ALS. To Mr. Alfred Robert Freebairn (1794-1846) about an engraving or painting to be produced...
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London: Printed for Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, Finsbury-Square, and J. Major, Fleet-Street, 1824. First edition, large paper issue, one of 100 copies. Sadleir’s Copy, Large Paper, in Boards. Tipped in at vol. I are eight pages of undated advertisements at the front endpapers, and an advertisement for the fourth edition..... Read More about The Library Companion; or, The Young Man‘s Guide, and The Old Man’s Comfort, in the Choice of...
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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Co. Printed at the Shakespeare Press, 1814-15. First edition. In boards, Uncut. Dibdin’s elaborate catalogue of the library of the second Earl Spencer, one of the great book collectors of his or any time. T.F. Dibdin (1776-1847) was for many years Spencer’s librarian and produced..... Read More about Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, a Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Printed in the Fifteenth...
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June 3, 1811. Pickering Borrows a Pynson. "I shall be particularily obliged by the loan of your Pynson's Calendar of Shepherds for 2 or 3 days. I am at this moment entering very deeply upon the subject; which after all, seems to defy the most sagacious bibliographical criticism. The bearer..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed (“T.F. Dibdin”), to Francis Freeling
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Feb 7, [1837]. Dibdin to Pickering. A good letter to Pickering, Bookseller and Publisher, concerning a complex financial transaction with another publisher: "Major paid his bill on Saturday; and thus far all is right. If you have parted with my bill, due on Saty, at Scotts, for £100, will you..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed (“T.F. Dibdin”), to William Pickering
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London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press, 1817. First edition, with half-titles and errata. Read More about The Bibliographical Decameron; Or Ten Days' Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts and...
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London: [William Davy for] Henry Bohn 4, York Street, 1832. First edition, ordinary paper copy. "Where were ye, ye pains-taking, fiddle-faddling, indefatigable collectors of Franks-ye threaders of autographic scraps-ye 'Albumites' . . ." So writes Dibdin,writing as both "Cato Parvus" and "Mercurio Rusticus," the pseudonyms used in "Bibliomania," in his..... Read More about Bibliophobia. Remarks on the Present Languid and Depressed State of Literature and the Book...
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London: Printed for Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, Finsbury-Square and J. Major, Fleet Street, 1824. Large paper copy of the first edition. LARGE PAPER COPY. Pagination not as called for in Pippin and Windle, who call for continuous pagination. Read More about The Library Companion; or, The Young Man's Guide, and the Old Man's Comfort, in the Choice of a...
Price: $1,500